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What Can Fitness Change, Go Do Fitness, Wechat: Translation

Weixin photo from Jianshen Qu Ba, unknown origin, complete article

Weixin photo from Jianshen Qu Ba, unknown origin, complete article

China is a separate world and becoming even more distant. This is especially true with the internet. Wechat 微信 is part of China’s social media and a very good example. Their information ecosystem, heavily monitored and censored by the government, is often smartphone ecosystem, and not web site based. I occasionally monitor Chinese social media and often read some of their articles.

While the content can be very good, for fitness articles they almost always use white models. I find this very strange. There are more than enough jacked Chinese guys and beautiful Chinese women in Asia. The photos also have no sources.

National Post uses Deceiptful Ads in their News Articles

I really do not mind advertising, provided they are clearly marked as advertising. In this case National Post created a news article that is indistinguishable from their other news articles, except at the end of the article I found out that it was an advertisement. I was deceived by the National Post’s native advertising, 2

National Post deceptive advertising in their Driving section, 2017 Sept 30, photo 1

National Post deceptive advertising in their Driving section, 2017 Sept 30, photo 1

National Post deceptive advertising in their Driving section, 2017 Sept 30, photo 2

National Post deceptive advertising in their Driving section, 2017 Sept 30, photo 2

National Post deceptive advertising in their Driving section, 2017 Sept 30, photo 3

National Post deceptive advertising in their Driving section, 2017 Sept 30, photo 3